A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America

Download or read book A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America written by Craig Werner and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop of Motown; from Woodstock and the 'Summer of Love' to Vietnam and the race riots; from disco inferno to the Million Man March. This is an insightful and riveting study which looks at the place black music occupies in social history, its battle for the desegregation of popular music and its contribution to social change outside the recording studio